Finding Tiktaalik: Neil Shubin on the Evolutionary Step from Sea to Land
Professor Neil Shubin talks about the discovery of Tiktaalik and one of the greatest evolutionary events in Earth's history: when the very first fish ventured out onto land. Widely known as...
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My name is Neil Shubin. I'm from the University of Chicago where I'm a professor in the faculty of the anatomy department there. I also hold an appointment at the Field Museum of Natural History, also in Chicago. So you have to understand the setting. The setting of the day we found it was, this was our last expedition to the Canadian Arctic. We were running out of money, and I'm not saying this for drama. It's really expensive to work there. We had worked there for a number of years already with very little success. We had not much to show for ourselves. We decided to sort of spend the lot and have one last season working at that layer. So Steve's cracking rocks. Steve is up about seven feet from me and he says, hey Neil, wh...
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My name is Neil Shubin. I'm from the University of Chicago where I'm a professor in the faculty of the anatomy department there. I also hold an appointment at the Field Museum of Natural History, also in Chicago. So you have to understand the setting. The setting of the day we found it was, this was our last expedition to the Canadian Arctic. We were running out of money, and I'm not saying this for drama. It's really expensive to work there. We had worked there for a number of years already with very little success. We had not much to show for ourselves. We decided to sort of spend the lot and have one last season working at that layer. So Steve's cracking rocks. Steve is up about seven feet from me and he says, hey Neil, wh...
